[Python-Dev] Discussion related to memory leaks requested

[Stefan Krah]

Petr Viktorin <encukou <at> gmail.com> writes:
> The hairy details on why the global variables haven't yet gone away are
> on import-sig [0]. Nick suggested a workable solution there that I
> really need to go back to and implement.
> 
> [0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/import-sig/2015-July/001022.html

I want to add here that existing schemes for eliminating global variables
are inefficient (20% speed hit for _decimal), so a complete solution
would have to address that as well.


Stefan Krah